From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Nov 5 14:11:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09567 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 14:11:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09562 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 14:11:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.58.21]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA7129; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 23:11:28 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981105142239.00c6f340@127.0.0.1> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 23:15:22 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Brett Glass Subject: RE: Linux "best of breed?" Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Nov-98 Brett Glass wrote: > ESR is circulating another memo that's supposedly been leaked from > Mirosoft. This one calls Linux a "best of breed" UNIX implementation; see > > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,28397,00.html > > Ahem! It's beginning to sound as if these Linux memos, leaked by Linux > zealots, are a little too self-serving to be real. > > Maybe a word or two from the FreeBSD PR machine might be useful here. > > Oh, I forgot: FreeBSD doesn't DO PR. Do we really want the type of users Linux users aspire too? I have been doing Linux for a while and the average user tends to average to the script kiddi3z... I prefer the more mature radiance of FreeBSD... All IMHO offcourse... Plus the sources are better readable instead of being hacks =) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl Junior Network/Security Specialist FreeBSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message